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On 3/21/2017 at 2:30 PM, blue_dolphin said:Yesterday, I broke a longstanding rule and went to Trader Joe's when I was hungry. They seem to be having a bit of a coffee fest and I brought home two new-to-me cookies: Mocha Joe-Joe's and Coffee Toffee Shortbread Cookies. I managed to put them away in the cupboard and eat my planned lunch but I tried one of each with a cup of coffee today.
The Coffee Toffee Shortbreads are $2.99 for a box of 12 cookies. 180 calories/3 cookies. The shortbread cookie portion has some crunch from both crushed toffee and ground coffee beans. The bottom is dipped and the top drizzled with chocolate. Very nice. The small box limits the damage one can do.
The Mocha Joe-Joe's (product of Canada) are another flavor of the TJ's Oreo knock-off. $2.99 for a box of ~ 22 cookies. 150 calories/2 cookies. There are bits of ground coffee beans in the "creme" filling, they seem less sweet than a standard Oreo and the coffee/mocha flavor does come through. Maybe that's because I was washing it down with a mug of black coffee. I need to conduct another test and take the cookies apart to taste the cookie separately from the filling. That should be done with a glass of cold milk and include a dunk test. I haven't scheduled it yet. I'll report back if I remember.
When I got home from TJ's, I found an email advert from them with more coffee items. Good thing I didn't see some of these. I don't have a huge sweet tooth but I have a certain weakness for coffee and mocha flavors. I'm pretty sure the Vietnamese Coffee Caramels and/or the Coffee Cocoa Batons would have come home with me as well.
I cracked open my box of Mocha Joe-Joe's yesterday. Those things are dangerously good, possibly enough to take over first place in my personal sandwich cookie ratings. (I was a Hydrox girl way back when they were a Sunshine brand cookie. The new things they're selling under the Hydrox name aren't worth bothering with. Regular Oreos are so-so; the two flavors of Oreo I liked best—golden cookie with chocolate creme and the Key Lime special edition from two summers back—both seem to be out of production. Something about the normal Joe-Joe's doesn't really work for me, but the mocha version is one I'll need to ration cautiously.
